Reply #111: spamming that quote doesn't help your case. the article is about how at present carbon markets DON'T

[indurancevile]

do any of those things, irregardless of whether they "can" in some ideal world.

and the conclusion is that gov'ts will have to step in to make the transition -- as they always have. as indeed, they are, at present (funding for example the majority of wind projects).

and it doesn't demonstrate that gore & his for-profit "green" companies are anything but hypocritical scams.

Public records reveal that as Gore lectures Americans on excessive consumption, he and his wife Tipper live in two properties: a 10,000-square-foot, 20-room, eight-bathroom home in Nashville, and a 4,000-square-foot home in Arlington, Va. (He also has a third home in Carthage, Tenn.) For someone rallying the planet to pursue a path of extreme personal sacrifice, Gore requires little from himself.

Then there is the troubling matter of his energy use. In the Washington, D.C., area, utility companies offer wind energy as an alternative to traditional energy. In Nashville, similar programs exist. Utility customers must simply pay a few extra pennies per kilowatt hour, and they can continue living their carbon-neutral lifestyles knowing that they are supporting wind energy. Plenty of businesses and institutions have signed up. Even the Bush administration is using green energy for some federal office buildings, as are thousands of area residents.

But according to public records, there is no evidence that Gore has signed up to use green energy in either of his large residences. When contacted Wednesday, Gore's office confirmed as much but said the Gores were looking into making the switch at both homes. Talk about inconvenient truths.

Gore is not alone. Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean has said, "Global warming is happening, and it threatens our very existence." The DNC website applauds the fact that Gore has "tried to move people to act." Yet, astoundingly, Gore's persuasive powers have failed to convince his own party: The DNC has not signed up to pay an additional two pennies a kilowatt hour to go green. For that matter, neither has the Republican National Committee.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2006-08-09-gore-green_x.htm


if it's such an immediate crisis, why aren't these folks doing anything but making bank? they evidentally think the world is going to last in roughly its present configuration long enough for them to collect their profits.